Maxillaria encyclioides J.T.Atwood & Dodson 1997 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Another Flower Photo by Stefano and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by © Calaway Dodson

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Common Name or Meaning The Encyclia-Like Maxillaria [refers to the plants similarity to an Encyclia plant]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador in dense shade at elevations around 240 to 1300 meters as a hot to cool, pendant growing epiphyte with cylindric to elliptic, strongly laterally flattened, lightly grooved pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several sheaths, the uppermost often foliaceous, carrying 2 to 3 apical, narrowly elliptic, obtuse and obliquely emarginate, shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms late spring and summer on a basal, horizontal, 1.2" [3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence carrying intensely yellow sepals and petals with a red lip with a yellow apex.

CAUTION Neither of the photos above seem to be a match for this species so please use with caution!!!!! The Type drawing is absolutely correct.

Synonyms Rhetinantha encyclioides (J.T. Atwood & Dodson) M.A. Blanco 2007

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 20 #3 pg 268 1997 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 2002 drawing fide

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